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- Hydrangea (4213 bytes)
15: ...s native to southern and eastern [[Asia]] (from [[Japan]] to [[China]], the [[Himalaya]] and [[Indonesia]...
28: *''[[Hydrangea hirta]]'' . Japan.
29: *''[[Hydrangea involucrata]]''. Japan, [[Taiwan]].
31: ...gea macrophylla]]'' (Bigleaf Hydrangea). Southern Japan.
32: ...' (Panicled Hydrangea). Eastern China, [[Korea]], Japan, [[Sakhalin]]. - Magnolia (3033 bytes)
17: ''Magnolia'' species are mainly found in eastern [[North America]], [[Central Am...
26: ...se medicine]], where it is known as ''houpu''. In Japan, ''M. obvata'' has been used in a similar manner.... - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
32: ...f diversity in the mountains of [[Indo-China]], [[Japan]] and [[Taiwan]].
34: ...lossy oval leaves. Most rhododendrons flower for only a brief period each year, but during that time t... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
29: By the end of the [[20th century]], almost the only steam power still in regular use in [[North Amer...
34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund...
86: ...ice and the cost is very high. The experimental [[Japan]]ese magnetic levitation train has reached 552 km... - Ploidy (4598 bytes)
8: ...ps and ants are also haploid. For organisms that only ever have one set of chromosomes, the term '''mo...
16: ...cells and the other has diploid cells. Most commonly, the male is haploid and the female is diploid. ...
23: This was one of the procedures used by [[Japan]]ese researchers to produce [[Kaguya]] the father...
34: ...me copy number of 1 to 4, and that number is commonly fractional, counting portions of the chromosome ... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ce]]. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire...
14: ...ies of Western Europe. The Christian Church, the only centralised institution to survive the [[fall of...
72: ...The pre-westernization period in the [[history of Japan]] is sometimes referred to as medieval. The pre-c... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
4: ..."earthenware" and "stoneware" are generally used only for relatively easily constructed utensils such ...
21: ... in a day. Because of its nature, wheel work can only be used to initially create items with radial sy...
25: ...ly), and allowed to air-dry. This method is commonly used for smaller decorative pieces, such as figu...
29: ...ry pottery from [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Japan]]]]
32: ...sal or decorative item. This method is most commonly used for handbuilt pieces. Coloured clay can al... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...f Willendorf]]. There are some speculations that only ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' is capable of artistic expr...
15: ...ical evidence, the Jōmon people in ancient [[Japan]] were the first to develop [[pottery]], dating t... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
9: The word "[[Crest (heraldry)|crest]]" is commonly used to refer to a coat-of-arms. However, in her...
22: ...of arms''</td><td>''A shield, traditionally used only by a man''</td></tr>
28: ...her rare tinctures. The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of herald...
69: ...redundancy by referring to a particular tincture only once in the blazon, but the College of Arms has ...
92: ...sual, like wild men or [[Saracen]]s. If you show only the head of an animal, cut off at the neck, it i... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
10: ... (in Chinese, ''[[Shufa]]'' 書法, in Japanese ''[[Shodo|Shodō]]'' 書道, in ...
12: ...een five major styles of calligraphy. Using their Japanese names, they are ''tensho'' (seal style), ''rei...
14: ... basic calligraphy instruction is still common in Japanese lower education.
16: ...]], a style of [[Chinese painting|Chinese]] and [[Japanese painting]] based entirely on calligraphy.
68: ===Japanese Calligraphers=== - Woodcut (1909 bytes)
5: ... level of technical and artistic development in [[Japan]]. - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
8: ...led [[letters secret]]. Seals are no longer commonly used in this way, except for ceremonial purposes...
23: ...ting. Even in modern times, seals are still commonly used instead of handwritten [[signature|signatur...
29: ...ngs in [[Chinese Painting|China]], [[Japanese Art|Japan]], [[Korean Painting|Korea]], Vietnam, and the re... - Silk (8683 bytes)
11: ...ire]] knew of and traded in silk, the secret was only to reach Europe around AD [[550]], via the [[Byz...
25: ... outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ...ore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-quality saris given...
33: ...], and the city became a US silk centre, although Japanese imports were still more important.
36: [[World War II]] interrupted the silk trade from Japan. Silk prices increased dramatically and US indust... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
23: ... have proposed that he did not get that far, and only retold information he had heard from others. Tho...
25: ...This is usually considered the first mention of [[Japan]] in Western literature. However, it is possible ...
27: ... a battle that marked the beginning of the [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]. - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...uating, human activity. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal...
10: ...ternal [[logic]] and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, agains...
21: ... conditions. Anthropologists view culture as not only as a product of biological evolution but as a su...
23: ...erial culture''' and '''symbolic culture''', not only because each reflects different kinds of human a...
45: ...nthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to [[consumption goods]], but to the general pro... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...ings from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing how a piece is to be ...
8: ... mundana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to m...
17: ...or Jarawa. Many other languages have terms which only partly cover what Europeans mean by the term "mu...
19: In Czech, ''hudba'' is instrumental music and only by implication vocal music. Some languages in We...
31: Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must b... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
33: ...sources". The advent of [[nuclear weapon]]s came only weeks after the signing of the Charter and provi...
91: ...ning bodies made up of member states include not only the [[UN General Assembly|General Assembly]], [[...
106: ...tributors to the regular UN budget for 2001 are [[Japan]] (19.63%), [[Germany]] (9.82%), [[France]] (6.50...
111: ...nally, all official documents, in [[print]] or [[online]], are translated in all six languages.
126: Some respond that much of the blame can only lie with the member states that support it (or f... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
1: ...i]], showing its ''utaguchi'' (blowing edge) and inlay ]]
3: ...e|Japanese]], pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is a [[Japan]]ese [[end-blown flute]] which is held vertically...
8: ...t", from its size. It is a simple compound of two japanese words:
22: ... the result of centuries of isolated evolution in Japan.
26: Travel around Japan was restricted by the [[shogunate]] at this time,... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
55: ...of Fillmore's administration was the opening of [[Japan]] to American trade under Commodore [[Matthew Per... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the "S" stood for Simp...
52: ... Unfortunately for Grant's coordinated strategy, only Sherman's advance into Georgia was making progre...
64: ...d as a member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whis...
156: ...blic library in [[England]]. Grant also visited [[Japan]]. In the Shibakoen section of [[Tokyo]], a tree ...
158: ...'s claim to the islands was stronger and ruled in Japan's favor.
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